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Although the war is lost, the Order is scattered and darkness is reaching the last corners of Britain, Ginny Weasley tells herself that this is the new beginning she and Harry believed in for so long, and not the end at all.

Vignette. Severus Snape, traitor, liar, killer, pawn. He contemplates the sides he plays and where his loyalties lie. When you are nothing more than a pawn to be used on both sides, it is hard to tell. For him, it is also hard to care.

How in the world do I describe this? A view into Oliver's family situations, on falling in love. Includes slashyness. Starring Oliver, guest-starring Percy, Cedric, Amos Diggory.

Albus Dumbledore is a wizard, known for his power, and even more so for his wisdom. But one isn't born with such knowledge. Instead, it is learned through considerable experience. This little one-shot looks into such an experience that taught our favourite Headmaster an important lesson.

Years of battle, years of pain, immense losses, and the burden of the world on his shoulders. But now he has reached the end of his task, the end of his journey. It is time for him to go home. SONGFIC

Lucius Malfoy asks his father politely to sign something. Or maybe not so politely. Another of the loosely–connected Permission Slip (Ridd/AT so far) series.

My answer to the WIKTT 'Angstier Than Thou' challenge. Snape considers suicide and Hermione interrupts.

Harry has feelings for Draco, burning feelings. He decides he cannot cope and deals with it - really badly.

Neville Longbottom speaks up about his life and childhood in this monologue. We see tragic twists and turns, and all feel bad for Neville.

Even years after his defeat, Voldemort's reign of terror destroyed lives in more ways than one.

Songfic. Her hand. Her hand was perfect. She told him to hold on. But he would never hold hands with a person like her. He'd rather die than do that. Or, maybe he wouldn't. Lord only knows what will happen on that cold rainy night.

“Pack, he thought, and may well have mumbled as much aloud.” Ginny/Fenrir Greyback

Ginny Weasley does not feel quite herself in the summer after her fifth year. Or at least, she feels as though she has changed. She is not the same girl who attended Hogwarts ending just over a month ago. Puzzling over the Second War, which she is allowed no part in, and what exactly she wants to mean to Harry Potter, who never comes to see her, she begins to brew love potions in a desperate attempt to allay her boredom...

Not every childhood is pleasant and not all of our memories can we know. A prequel to Saved Memories.

Its Harry's sixth year, and he's determined to enjoy it - but naturally this doesn't happen. Death-eater attacks on wizards and muggles alike, leave Harry feeling confused about his place in the battle against Voldermort. It seems he's not the only instrumental figure in this fight against darkness. There's only one thing that Harry knows for sure - this year will be different.

When Draco takes a wrong turn one day in fourth year, little does he realise that the person he meets will end up being the only person he has left. Shame she's not really a person then...

The fifth year for the Marauders is an exciting one: they become animagi, Sirius plays a famous joke on Snape, and Lily and James get together (I know they didn't really get together until seventh year). By the time Harry Potter is 15, two Marauders are dead at the hands of Voldemort and his Death Eaters, and one is Voldemort's right-hand man. The only one that remains (and is still loyal to Dumbledore) is Moony, but he is a werewolf! He can't even get a job. I wrote this fanfic to keep all four Marauders (and Lily Evans) alive forever and loyal to Dumbledore (although Peter is in-between here). Enjoy!

Five wizards sit alone in their various lives....all any of them wants is one friend

Set in the summer between PoA and GoF and inspired by Sirius' tropical bird post. A newly-released Sirius and a newly-sacked Lupin try haltingly to pick up where they left off twelve years prior--and have some excitement along the way. Angst, fluff, and high adventure, all thrown together! Remus/Sirius slash themes.

After Crouch dies, Sirius pays a visit to Hogwarts. Takes places during Goblet of Fire.

What if Harry had a different Head of House in spite of being sorted into Gryffindor? Completely AU, will probably be a longer story following most canon events from first year until the end of fifth year but with a twist. Partly OOC, sick!Harry.

Two boys, sitting alone in the darkness on a stormy night. “Why?” he whispered quietly, in a heartbroken tone, as he watched his hands. His companion only stared at him with sadness, as if searching for the words that might comfort his friend but not being able to find them.

Harry Potter was told that he is the only one who can defeat Lord Voldemort. For the past few months he’s been dwelling on that prophecy. But there’s another prophecy, one that he doesn’t know about yet. ````There is one person who can help him. A person who is, in fact, essential to the defeat of Lord Voldemort. ````She is Albus Dumbledore’s daughter and she’s been living as an American Muggle for the past sixteen years, unaware of her true heritage. Can Harry and Ella defeat Lord Voldemort together? Or are they doomed to spend the rest of their lives searching for the strength to destroy the greatest evil that has ever threatened the wizarding world?

And she knew in her heart that he was wrong, now, and she looked at him with dead eyes that were empty of all emotion. It didn't matter to her much, anymore, for he was wrong. But he had won. And the winner was always right.

A girl named Rosanna/Rosie creates a web of love, and Harry gets tangled in it. Because of this Ron gets in a small but huge fight with Harry. Harry finds a letter that sends Hermione, Harry, Rosie, and Draco on a quest to find the lost piece of a tablet, and they end up fighting on the curve of the worlds destruction.

'Midquel' to Searching for the Truth. Connie goes home after a hard year at Hogwarts, but this one may just be worse.

A one shot from the point of view of Hermione's parents.

Ginny isn't the little innocent sister Ron wanted. She's flawed. She's surprised him. Angsty!Angry!Ginny thinks about her life while Ron screams. [Ginny/Tom, Ginny/Snape, Ginny/Ron?]

You are a fledgling who tried to fly from the nest, little bird. Tried to fly and fell. Why did you leave the safety of the nest? ``WARNING: cross generation femmeslash.

Eight-year-old Draco gets beat up. Gen.

The blind man thinks about the thin line between love and hate.

Can one live with the horror of what they've done? Can they live with their betrayal? A short tale about a woman who failed to bring back one man she grew close to during the war, and her self-hatred.

A Minerva McGonagall pastfic. Minerva is still attending Hogwarts and she's still on the Quidditch team. Semi-finals are here, and eager parents become obsessed with the team's winning. Every time the team slips up, the parents become more outraged. Soon, they take their anger out on their kids and havoc ensues.

Suddenly the Dursleys don't look too bad. Short story based on the Harry Potter universe.

AU: Instead of Harry being the boy who lived he is the brother of the girl who lived and lives in the shadows. Voldemort rises again yet the wizarding world are thinking his sister will save them but she can't for it is Harry who will help them! Will they figure it out before it's too late and he turns dark or before Voldemort gets to the Potter siblings? And will Harry ever learn to like his sister and not just protect her because of the memory of his late parents?

"Tomorrow. Just another wasted day. A day without comfort, hope and freedom. A day filled with pain. A day in the life of a shadow." - The wizarding world is a few months away from The Final Battle. Ron, Hermoine, Harry, Ginny and Draco have become mere shadows of their former selves. When events take a surprising turn, will they survive?

There is always a next battle. (DH Spoilers!)

"I feel like... like I’m standing on the edge of a sunset, fighting to snag the edge of light as it slips past my fingers and below the horizon. I can’t hold on to that last bit of familiarity, as the darkness takes over, but I’ll try with all my heart, until it fades and I have to face the night." A Slytherin ponders the life of the Boy Who Lived.

This is the story of what would have been, if Harry Potter hadn't shot that jet of green light, illuminating the battlefield, that jet of light that told everyone in the world his story. That one stream of light, of concentrated energy, power, and magic... that ended it all.

During the war, Hermione's thirst for vengeance is the only thing that keeps her alive. Harry's POV. Angst, drama and slash warning, G/Hr

Sirius, James, and Peter know Remus's secret. Now they have only one problem: How to tell Remus that they know? What if our favourite werewolf freaks out or something? There's only one way to find out. Remus indeed freaks, James is a pack leader, Peter is a protective friend and Sirius tries to bribe with chocolate.``No slash.

A short glimpse of Severus Snape's life during the Marauder's time. Sometimes, what must be done is very different from what the heart yearns to do. Severus/Sirius slash.

After the war, a destitute Ginevra finds that marrying Lucius Malfoy is her only chance to survive.

After the Dementor attack in the summer after Voldemort's return, Dudley is reflecting on what happened and the implications for the future. Explores the relationship between Dudley and Harry, from Dudley's point of view.

Thanks to a sex-obsessed Ronald Weasley, Hermione secretly spends much of her fifth year considering the intimate relationships of the giant populace. HW, HP, RW, Giants and a cameo from Snape.

Strange dreams and not-quite-by-chance meetings set Harry and Draco on edge as they begin to realize that there's something very strange going on with them. Contains slash (Draco/Boy!Blaise), war paint, the two things Malfoy doesn't like to advertise, the possible reason for all the secret-spilling at that dinner with Grace, and Harry's remarkably Bludger-like punch. Sequel to A Meal with the Viper.

Everyone is absolutely delighted that Hermione and Ron are finally engaged. Everyone, that is, except Molly Weasley. A different look at Molly Prewett's decision to marry Arthur Weasley many years prior, and at the fickle relationship that exists between the family-oriented Ron Weasley and the driven Hermione Granger.

A Dark artefact falls into the hands of a Muggle cricketer ... and the trail leads Harry and his picked band of Aurors through Spinner's End and the Hangletons, to a final confrontation on a village cricket pitch, where they hit the Forces of Evil for six. (All Kingsley wants is for the forms to be filed correctly.)

An aside to Switch. Where do memories go to die? Why, our dreams, of course.

When Harry and Draco go into a coma, they share a dream that is very interesting. Draco POV and the first in the Brothers trilogy.

Luna has questions that she thinks Remus might be able to answer.

Its ten years after canon-Potter; Voldemort has been defeated (probably, although he's bound to pop up somewhere again) and England is settling down. However, a new Dark Lord is on the rise. He's clever. He's maliciously evil. He won't let a bespectacled scar-face stand in his way, and he has impeccable taste... Welcome to No. 2 Winding Road, Home of the Dark Lord.

Lucius Malfoy tries to talk his way out of prison and regain his place in society. Can this smooth-talking Slytherin really convince them to accept someone with such a questionable past? One-shot.

Can you imagine being ripped out of the world you know, and plunged into a world that is cold and dark? Can you imagine being tortured...? There have been rumours that Lucius brings Draco girls to practice the unforgivable curses on, and one night, one girl finds the truth in these rumours.

"Sometimes a master needs his slave just as much as a slave needs her master." t/g with some d/g, darkfic.

"You have made your decision." Harry Potter ponders his life and the decisions that he has made.

Harry sits on the train and wonders about losing his best friend until he discovers something that might make a difference!

Shortly before trying to tell Harry and Ron, Ginny confides her secret with her close friend.

Some familiar characters exercise their magical powers for the first time.

Everybody loves Ginny... but who does Ginny love?

You always hurt the ones you love. (H/D)

Ever wondered who Harry's namesake is? James is trying desperately to get Lily to go out with him and Peter isn't a death eater yet.

"Because of you, Harry Potter," he writes, "I am nothing." Angst/angst for a reason.

Harry Potter has just lost the closest thing he ever had to a father and has heard word that either he must be a murderer or be murdered. All of this is weighing on poor Harry's back and it's draining him of his will to live. This is a story about how his life changes after his fifth year at Hogwarts and what happens during his sixth year there. Will he be able to make it through to victory again or will he lose hope all together and forsake the rest of the wizarding world as we know ``it? Please R/R!!

Remus is writing, finally, after years of not, about the circumstances leading up to his becoming a werewolf. About his Father, and the irony of a star gazer being becmoing a werewolf. A first person fix, designed to be written as I imagine Remus would write about himself.

Prequel to "Scrawled Upon My Soul" and "The Way the Candles Light Your Face". What was Draco up to while Harry was off being a war hero? Faced with a life or death decision, Draco has a realization regarding the man he wants to be and the man his father wants him to be.

Tom and Ginny story. Set during CoS. Ginny's pov. She misses Tom. Now she's got him. But for how long will she want to keep him? Read, please. This can be a one part story or can continue.

I want to be there when Harry kills Voldemort. I want to be there to hold Harry after, and I want to tell him that he avenged his parents, and that Harry can do whatever he wants now, because Harry defeated Voldemort. -- Sirius Black.

A month has passed since the death of Lord Voldemort. A chance meeting on the street forces Remus Lupin to confront questions he cannot answer.

Neville learns just who was behind the mask of 'Mad-Eye' Moody, during his fourth year, and considers what it means to him, reflecting on what happened to his parents and him during his childhood. A counterpoint story to the Crouch Jr. perspective fic - The Scars Of Trust.

Sometimes there is nothing worse than having your faults pointed out to you. Especially when they are coming from your soulmate.

The final battle has come and gone, and only one man walks away. How will a letter from beyond the grave affect the survivor?

When Harry Potter is convicted for several brutal murders and imprisoned in Azkaban, the magical world unknowingly forges a weapon that will destroy not only its enemy, but its creator.

One Christmas Eve, Lucius Malfoy takes stock of his crumbling life. Scenes of humiliation and cheap sex punctuate his remembrances.

'I scare myself sometimes. I catch myself thinking all sorts of crazy things… but it’s so tempting to just forget… to pretend…' he says, and you nod unhappily in agreement. But pretending won't solve anything, it only makes the hurt worse when you finally face it.

My thoughts have become a swirling caricature of sanity, even I admit, but they don’t know. None of them out there know; know that I have you; know that you’re mine. They don’t know that I can keep you alive. Songfic of sorts to the song Sleeping Beauty by A Perfect Circle. Femslash and implied necrophilia.

While school shopping in Diagon Alley, 10-year-old Severus Snape meets Lucius Malfoy for the first time.

A few days after Sirius' capture, Remus returns to Hogwarts to recover and remember his old friends. Songfic to Les Miz.

Not all problems are solved by magic! Sirius Black and the Potters face The Boy Who Wouldn't Stop Crying.

Snape and Harry have more in common than either would have believed.

When a Muggle girl who loves fantasy moves into 6 Privet Drive, what will she find out about the mysterious boy in the bedroom next to hers? A bit of everything--humor, action, suspense, and angst. Deals with the forbidden and out-of-reach. Dudley gets beat up by a girl. It's all good.

About a young Snape and his time at Hogwarts through to when Lily and James die.

Buried his mind there, didn't he? For fives years, he did. Five years. And he was insane. It was deep, and it was hidden, under layers of papers and TVs, shows and Muggle beer, clinging onto the poles of the bar like a sailor to the mast of a sinking ship, yelling on about how we all are castaways of circumstances in the end, as though he'd already reached it.

"Everything suddenly seemed much clearer now."

The follow up to Giving Up Little Girl Dreams.``When Ginny catches Harry with someone else she flirts with the idea of evil.``Rated R for one implied sexual situation.``D/G

What made Severus Snape kill Dumbledore? Is he really a loyal Death Eater? Take a step into his mind to find out what really happened.

Sirius Black and Severus Snape start getting along. Kind of.

The first victim of the Death Eaters. Who she was, why she was hated... how she triumphed over her enemies.

The summer before her third year, Hermione signed up for an inter-collegiate pen-pal program, then promptly forgot about it...until she received a letter from one Brynja Snorrisdotter. Taking place starting in the third year and moving on up.

“You can’t, can you? And you’re more articulate than I am. It’s just a feeling, Moony. One of those feelings that you can’t explain, but it’s there. Like love, Moony, like love. You can’t describe that either. That’s what the tapestry feels like. But I also got this gnawing feeling from it…like anguish or something.”

I still see your face, staring up at me, eyes wide and dying. I still see your pale hand, stretching out to me, silently begging me to save you. Pleading for one more chance at life. Your eyes, not accusatory, but pitying. Pitying me. When you were the one dying. I still hear your last words, like a curse on me. ``WARNING: Slash, suicide, murder, and loads and loads of angst.

Assigned to a mission that quickly spins out of control, Nymphadora Tonks meets Remus Lupin for the first time under the direst of circumstances.

Hermione Granger is depressed. Her life seems to have hit a mental road block. She can't find love anywhere. But what will she do? A songfic to Paint it Black.

In an alternate timeline, Harry and Draco attended Hogwarts in the early twentieth century, where they learned to brew a secret immortality potion. Harry's formula is complete but Draco's is missing its final matrix for forever-earthly life. In the intervening years the always-youthful wizards have participated in many of the key events of the twentieth century... and Draco is still following Harry's trail, trying to complete his own formula before time runs out.

What becomes of a hero when the lights go down and the dragon is slain? Harry PoV.

A lone wizard watches an ordinary Muggle home, pondering the inevitable path that led him to this point.

There are few things worth killing for. One of them is immortality.

"Regulus can't bring himself to let go of the horcrux. It masquerades as a heavy locket, and its engraving presses against his palm as his fingers tense around the metal, his skin accepting the imprint of its patterns." Regulus meets Sirius for the last time.

The Hogwarts Sorting Hat is given three rather... unusual children to Sort one September. Told from the Hat's POV. A light-hearted, quickly read, character-sketchy piece providing background for some of my characters from "Heiress of the Curse" and "The Vale Beyond" (which you can read on Schnoogle).

Remus sees a young Nymphadora Tonks' true form for the first time and reflects on her heritage.